By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | – – If only Muslims reach out to help the Rohingya, the international community will suffer another blow to its reputation. They were Muslims, and they were leaving the country in droves. Their homeland, a remote corner of a multiethnic country, had become a […]
Archives for September 2017
US will Ease Restrictions on Drones, Expand Usage
TeleSur | – – Speaking last month of reducing restrictions on drone usage, President Trump resorted to biblical language, saying “retribution will be fast and powerful.” The United States is preparing to eliminate several major restrictions and regulations on the use of drones, making it easier to use the controversial form of warfare more frequently, […]
Betsy DeVos and “Real” Rape
By Gail Ukockis | (Informed Comment) | – – When I was in college in the early eighties, the dorm staff told us females to get escorts if we had to walk outside after dark. Watch out for the dark bushes in front of the dorm building, they warned us. Each communal bathroom also […]
Iranian Leader: Trump is “Disturbed,” speaks like a Cowboy or Mobster
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iranian hardliners are still responding to Trump’s speech at the UN Monday, in which he accused Iran of backing terrorism and called the nuclear deal the worst deal the US had ever made. Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday that Donald Trump’s address to the […]
How Colonialism, Inequality turbocharge Caribbean Hurricanes
By Levi Gahman and Gabrielle Thongs | (The Conversation) | – – Hurricane Maria, the 15th tropical depression this season, is now battering the Caribbean, just two weeks after Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc in the region. The devastation in Dominica is “mind-boggling,” wrote the country’s prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, on Facebook just after midnight on […]
Tweeting while the Planet Burns: Dystopia 2025
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – It’s January 2025, and within days of entering the Oval Office, a new president already faces his first full-scale crisis abroad. Twenty-four years after it began, the war on terror, from the Philippines to Nigeria, rages on. In 2024 alone, the U.S. launched repeated air […]
Yemen’s Children Are Being Shelled While the World Sits Back
By Kristine Beckerle | ( Human Rights Watch) | – – Deadly Attack in Taizz Shows Need for International Inquiry Yemenis were again mourning their children this weekend – this time in Taizz, Yemen’s third largest city. Houthi-Saleh forces indiscriminately shelled a residential neighborhood killing three children – two of whom were playing football – […]
The Anti-Bouazizi: Did Russia try to ‘flash mob’ a Trump Victory?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Russian internet trolls linked to an oligarch close to Vladimir Putin went beyond just posting meme-making posters exalting Donald Trump and demeaning Hillary Clinton. They actually promoted “flash mob” spontaneous protests in the real world in 17 cities, according to the scoop of Ben Collins, Gideon […]
How did the Persecution of Burma’s Rohingya Arise?
By Engy Abdelkader, JD, LL.M. | (The Conversation) | – – Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, a religious and ethnic minority community in Myanmar, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August this year. The United Nations has called the Rohingya the world’s most persecuted minority group and described the atrocities by Myanmar’s authorities as “ethnic cleansing,” […]
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